Leviticus 7:26
You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your homes.
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In Context
27Anyone who eats blood must be expelled from their people.’”
Cross References
Exodus 22:30You must also give me the firstborn of your cattle, sheep, and goats. They can stay with their mothers for their first seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.
Leviticus 17:10I will disown any Israelite or any foreigner living among them who eats any blood and I will expel them from their people.
Ezekiel 33:25So tell them that this is what the Lord God says: You eat meat with the blood still in it. You go and worship your idols. You commit murder. Do you really think the country should belong to you?
Acts 15:20We should write to them and tell them to avoid food sacrificed to idols, sexual immorality, meat of animals that have been strangled, and from consuming blood.
Ephesians 1:7Through him we gain salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins as a result of his priceless grace
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 7:12-35
Law of the Peace-Offering. ( b. c. 1490.) 11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the Lord . 12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried. 13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings. 14 And of it he shall offer one… Read the whole commentary →